The 2025 Blow-Out Episode | Game Awards 2025 Round-up + Fantasy Critic League Results

[00:00:00] Beth, give me a high five Oh, you This is so sweet I thought you said I was below you Give me a high five to your left No, my arms can't move, my friend Brutal Greg has become a real doll Wait, just move her to the left Just slap her against the wall Sweet, dude You requested like

[00:00:29] Oh, sorry guys, I have to go to the bathroom Like a fucking action figure If you're still a listener at this point You better be You better be a watcher And if it's your first episode Really weird choice Yeah You're never too old Or too young

[00:00:58] Never too old Either or I'm too young to fucking care I'm so fucking future Maybe people who are under the age of like Fifteen or sixteen Shouldn't be watching Fifty or older No, let them watch Let them watch Let them see What can they see that is inappropriate I was thinking more of what Sometimes we say

[00:01:28] Not what we see Hey, wait Wait, move it up just a touch Wait, I want to do something Oh, Jerry Oh, no You gotta get right to them Veto Veto it I veto it Whatever is that to happen I veto it Ladies and gentlemen You're back on Super Ghost Holy shit I guess we should get it started Huh? We may as well kickstart it Let's get it started Let's get it That's not what that used to say But

[00:01:59] That's the Weird Al version you're thinking of No We don't need to say that No, no, no, no We won't Aaron I I I lured you into a trap That I thought you weren't gonna fall into And then I had to push you out of the way All I said was That's the Weird Al version We don't need to say that We're Yeah We don't need to say that Not one of us is the President of the United States It's so true and so sad Welcome back to Super Ghost, everybody Oh

[00:02:28] We are so back Oh man, I'm so glad we could all get back together for a holiday For the Holy shit I'm so glad we could all get back together for the holidays For the holidays Goddamn Aaron, you know what? I'm so glad that we Did we adopt you or did you adopt us? I don't know what happened to Aaron Yeah There's more of us I guess it was, yeah Yeah So now Aaron Aaron is now allowed to come sit by the fireside with us

[00:02:56] And enjoy the stress of fantasy critic The big kids table That happens on Super Ghost Yeah, you are no longer at that stupid little square table With kids eating crayons and shit No more Tommy's still over there Tommy's sitting there eating a bag of crayons Yeah, he is I love you, Tommy Left him in the fucking dust But anyways

[00:03:22] This is going to be the last episode of Super Ghost Ever We take Ever We're never coming back Never We take a nice little holiday break We treat ourselves for the holidays, you know? A little sabbatical A sabbat, if you will Yeah We just want to enjoy our games And hang out with each other We actually We do hang Like, this isn't the only time Well, it kind of is the only time

[00:03:52] That all four of us talk like this lately But We do hang out outside the show, too Because we're friends, man We're all friends I don't know why When you say it that way I don't believe you Even though I know each other We're going to hang out The way you're like You know, we're friends We do You don't believe in our friendship anymore, Beth? No, I don't I don't believe you when you say it for some reason That's me

[00:04:21] You're dripping insincerity Yeah What the fuck? Classic Jerry Sipping that peppermint tea Very holiday So, yeah We're going to get into the fantasy critic results of this year

[00:04:46] I guess we'll get into that as the meat to the potatoes The potatoes We'll do a little rundown of some super important breaking news To get us kickstarted here Because there's some things that happened Right? Guys? We all kind of We all got a thing the other night Like Oh We all got a thing I Each I was too sick Everyone I fell asleep

[00:05:16] Aaron was not present Yeah Aaron tends to do this thing where he Just leaves the needle in And just falls asleep What the fuck? No, I was super fucking sick And I fell asleep Yeah May you rest May you did rest Listeners, just to be clear Aaron is not on that H Now Let's continue It's all about the F Or the other letters No, not F That's

[00:05:45] Yeah, that's fentanyl That's a bad one What's another cool letter? Q Is there a drug that starts with Q? Q? No, you're on the You're on the Oh You're into opium Oh, okay Cool Yeah, you did some opium And then fell asleep with coins on your eyes Oh my god Fuck you, Greg I almost just spit my tea out Holy shit You know what? You know what, listeners? If you want more of this good shit Before we continue You can go to superghost.site Get all of our episodes

[00:06:15] And socials And Patreon And give us money Two, four, eight dollars a month Okay, bye Yeah, and if you're with your family And it's like over the holidays You can go straight to hell Yeah Show them the website I thought I thought you were gonna say like Steal a credit card Of like that aunt or uncle There you go Who says a lot of shady shit And you're just like Oh, fuck them Get back with them down Yeah, if you want to spend your gift Your stocking gift card money On something good

[00:06:45] Spend it on us Mm-hmm Aaron is dying For a new set of skull candies Dude, okay Those fucking like Keychain Cousin Spike ones Are so tits Cousin Spike is like Low-key The coolest Charlie Brown character Yeah Cannon Spike That's what I know Oh, man No, Cousin Spike is the one Cannon Spike No, whatever Next Now I

[00:07:16] Next Moving on Next on the docket I guess we should get into Some super important breaking news There was a There was a pile of things Announced at this Just to go through this Really quickly Because I mean It was It was kind of Non-stop announcements That Dungeons and Dragons game Where you play as a warlock Ooh So I like that Trailer looks That trailer looks cool We don't know what the game Is going to be I I hope it starts a series Where

[00:07:44] It's just a class name And then you play as Each game And you play as a different class Ooh, like That would be cool And they all Yeah The next game could be Druid Or Paladin Or something like that And they all meet up That would kind of be cool That's kind of You know what That's kind of like That's just dark That's just Darksiders But it's still really cool Yeah No, I think it's a really good idea Especially if they're fun To play Oh yeah The, like Because the

[00:08:14] Class identity Type thing That they really nail it Each time It could be a really great way To get into Playing these These games I think it's a smart idea It is And like in that trailer We saw A few Eldritch Blasts And a packed weapon So it's Everything Warlock has Already Yeah Nice Yup Moving along We have This was kind of a surprise Gang of Dragons Yeah, so Which

[00:08:43] Yeah, go ahead Go on, Greg It's made by the guy Who made Like the original Yakuza And so it's not An RGG game But it's also just like We don't know What the gameplay is No, but it's in The Yakuza Like universe Are you sure? No I don't think it is I don't think it is No, literally Also If Everyone can see This, right? Including the readers Like the viewers Yep Yep Like a dragon Yakuza Seems to have Some competition Yeah

[00:09:13] It's clearly not It's competition for them Yeah, so yeah And he's not working with them Yeah, so he made The original game And now he's making Another one I love this guy's mug Like I just love Like that whole trailer Was so good Of him just Fucking those guys Up in that bar And like Just so like Nonchalantly It was a fantastic trailer And like Totally Like I mean As I'm watching I'm like This is definitely A new Yakuza game Like a hundred percent It's a new Yakuza game Which I mean You wouldn't be

[00:09:42] No one could blame you For thinking that Yeah Yeah I'm down for it Like I wasn't Scraining It was This was the first Let me just say this Real quick This is the first time We've ever watched An awards show together Three of us That I didn't scream out Bloodborne 2 True That was a lot of restraint On your part And No, there just wasn't Anything there That looked like Bloodborne 2 There was no No one showed us An image of the moon There wasn't a moon True Jerry How is it like

[00:10:12] A werewolf When he sees the moon Bloodborne 2 Cookie crisp The Forest 3 Which There was a 2 Was not at all Yeah Yeah Sons of the Forest Oh People People talk pretty highly Of that game Yeah Yeah So Yeah This didn't Look anything at all Like what I was Like when they When it came up

[00:10:41] The Forest 3 I was like How Like this is like All high tech And shit It's almost like Sci-fi You're like Fighting I don't know Like these weird ass Like plant monsters And shit It It It was cool looking Was this Will I plant Probably not Was this the one That had the robot dogs Cyber Forest I don't The person who Who crash landed Had some robot dogs In one trailer Maybe I I really Can't Can't recall Is it

[00:11:11] I just remember Being It's kind of cool That they're Decided They're like Yeah You know what Like we've done Earth Forest Now let's do Forest in space It's gonna be Like that That Spongebob episode With the time machine Where they go in the future And everything's painted chrome And there's that one spot Of the tree That's not chrome And a dude just comes up Sprays it chrome That's it Yeah Why not It It is the one With the robot dogs Okay Is it Yeah Okay Cool Um

[00:11:41] Okay So here we go This This was the first one This is the first one Ladies and gentlemen Boys and girls If you don't know Beth by now Beth Has a very Very Very large Part of her heart Dedicated to Tomb Raider They announced Not one But two Fucking Tomb Raider games At the same time Are they part of the Reboot series? No I mean

[00:12:11] Well Go ahead Catalyst So the What From what we saw It seemed like The one that's coming out In Um 2027 The I think The Catalyst Is um That one is going to be The new That's the new one That's Lara And in this new Kind of um Version of her Um You know Reboot Reboot The Legacy Of Atlantis one Which is next year Is a kind of

[00:12:40] Like top down Full Reimagining Of the first game So um Like it will Oh my god Seeing Them zoom out And seeing The doors Uh To like the first Tomb that you Enter in Tomb Raider And you That's what This This Ends on I Was like Freaking out I was so excited Um You said And I quote I'm crying

[00:13:10] I I I I started Crying I don't Know When I Saw Them It was like The The nostalgia The love Um The memories I have With the Tomb Raider Games Uh Especially the First ones Like You know Like Jerry Said I have a Really special Place in my Heart for it But a Big part of That is Because Um I watched My mom Play Like she Was really Into Tomb Raider Uh And Watching Her play She had Such a bad Sense of Direction

[00:13:39] That She would Get me To come Sit with Her On the Couch So that I could Navigate For her So she Could like Walk She would Walk into A new Room Turn around Walk out And to The room She had just Been in And think That was The new Room And so Like I I had To be Like no You know Like girl We getting Turned Literally Turned Around No This is This is The same Room Girl Back that Ass up Yeah Yelling at Your mom And shit

[00:14:09] Literally Like I Was so I have Like I Said I Have a Lot of Love For the Series Um And Yeah When I Saw Kind of Like zoom Out And you See Those Doors Which is Like the Opening For the Original Tomb Raider I Was like Suddenly Overwhelmed And I Was like I don't Know why I'm Crying I'm For me Like When I Realized Like Oh my god There's Dinosaurs In this One But then It was Like Not one But two Like I Thought it Was all

[00:14:38] One thing Until it Literally had to Spell it out And was like No no These are two Different things Yeah Well I Was like So Watching The trailer I also For Like Was kind Of like Thinking Like Maybe it Was the Same Thing But they Did a Like you Know Cause they In Catalyst They like Panned up To what Lara is Going to Look like In the 2027 Game And then They showed Like her Outfit And I Was like That's the Outfit From like The first Game But I Thought maybe It was Just like A

[00:15:08] Like a Costume Or let You have That option And so Once when They showed The Dinosaurs And I Think It And I Was also Like okay They're Having the Dinos Back It's Awesome It wasn't Until you Saw that That entrance To the Tomb That I Put the Pieces Together And was Like This is This is The first Game Guys Good News Lara Is Finally Sexy Again Are You I Don't Think She Is I Wish They Would Just Make her Hot Instead Of Woke

[00:15:41] Look how Small Her Boobs Are Oh No Also Does Anybody Get Like an East Indian Vibe From Lara This Time Around Is That By the Way If You Have Yes By now We Are Totally I Mean Aaron Go Ahead And clip All Of That And See If We Can Get Ourselves Canceled No Praise Praise Today's World That Was So Funny As We Were Watching This Greg Immediately Was Like I

[00:16:11] Wonder What Twitter Saying About This Nothing Fun And They Didn't Disappoint Me Immediately Disappointed Me Yeah So Sorry Quickly Just Like One Last Thing Before We Like I Did Like The 2013 You Know Reboot Version Of Lara And I Also Liked Rise Of The Tomb Raider As Well But What I Really Truly Wanted

[00:16:41] From The Next Bit Of Tomb Raider Was For Them To Kind Of Go Back To This Athleticism And Gymnastics With The Mobility And The Not Making Her Feel A Little Bit More Of That That That Was Refreshing to It Was Yeah And I Feel Like It Distinguished Her From Like You Know Uncharted And Indiana Jones And Things Like That Of Being This Like Is She Also Like A Treasure Hunter Tomb Raider

[00:17:11] Like All That That That That That That That That That Was Beth's Get That Was The Thing That Was Her Game Of The Show

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[00:22:42] They Made Like The Best Alien Game And If You Could Just Make Another One Because The First One Was Really Good That Wasn't Was Was Was Isolation A bit Of

[00:23:12] So Good A lot Of People I I Remember Bitching About The Like There's Like A Part In The Middle Where You Kind Of You Don't Really Interact With The Xenomorph For Like A Little Bit And It's More Like Geared Towards Like The Androids And I remember Like People Being Saying Like Oh It Dragged On A Little Too Long Like It Kind Of Overstate Because It's It's Longer Than You Would Expect It To Be I Think It's 20 Hours Or Something I Thought It was 13 Is You Might Be Right Yeah I Just Remember It Being Like People Saying Like Oh Kind

[00:23:42] Of Overstate Is Welcome But I I Loved That Game I I Haven't Played That Since Me Welcome To Super Ghost And We're Back Oh Baby Oh My Fucking

[00:24:12] God So My Get Of The Show Went So Incredibly Hard And It Seemed Like People The Way That Jeff Announced This He Was Like Hey This Is Something That We're Very Excited To Announce Exclusively Here It's A Franchise That's Decades Old And Everybody Kind Of Perked Their Ears Up And There's Been A Lot Of Buzz About Half Life Three Legitimately Coming Out Like Soon And Everybody Was Like Holy

[00:24:42] Shit Here It Is Here's The Half Life Trailer And Like This Orchestra Swells And The Camera Is Panning And It's Like Holy Shit What Is This And Like Everything Is Lighting Up And Then I Hear Like The Jingle From A Mega Man Game And I'm Like Hold On A Second And Then It Reveals Mega Man And Shows Us Gameplay Of A Brand New Mega Man Called Mega Man Dual Override What The Fuck Not

[00:25:12] I mean I Hate This Term But That Four Shizzle Was Not On My Fucking Four Shizzle Was Not On My Bizzle Card You Didn't Have To Say It So What What's Different About This One Did They Show Like Any Gameplay Of It I Know I Remember Seeing A Little Like A Little Clip About How It's Supposed To

[00:25:50] Really Good It Really Really Really Good Yeah I Want You To Do That This Should Have Been What The Show Ended Okay Yeah I Agree Greg What'd Say Greg I Said This Should Have Been The Mega Man Reveal Yeah Absolutely Maybe Did You Have You Watched The Trailer Again Since No I Haven't Cause Did You Catch That Cause There Was A Crowd Noise In

[00:26:20] The Show But It Ends With The Proto Man Whistle So It What It It Lends Credence To My To My That That'd Be Cool Maybe It Is Gonna Be A Dual Override I Mean And Credited Every Single Time I Also Until I I Feel Like This Is Like A Mandela Effect

[00:26:50] Happening In Real Time Because I Also Thought That This Was Called Dual Overdrive And When I Read This My Brain Had A Little Little Little Just Like A Little Bitty Stroke And Sat There And Salt Saltily Was Like I Guess I Have To Buy This

[00:27:20] I Just Had I I Thing That Was Like You Know I Saw A Ghost Or Something I

[00:27:49] Did See A Ghost The Ghost Of Mega Man Because I Thought That He Was Dead Yeah Hands Hands On Your Face Jizz In Your Pants Last Night You Saw A Man As I Recalled It Was A Mega A Man Oh My God Can I Give You Points For That Holy Shit Oh Holy Shit

[00:28:20] Star Wars Galactic Racer Which Is Basically Like Star Wars Racer I Guess Greg You It's Going To Be Fun It's Going To Be A Fun Time Yeah It Looks Cool The Bigger Announcement Though Is Star Wars Fate Of The Old Republic Which Very Very Explicitly Showcase

[00:28:49] That Casey Hudson Who Started Bioware With Other Others But He's One Of The Main Dudes And He Worked On Mass Effect He Worked On Dragon Age This Guy And Like Obviously Knights Of The Old Republic So He Started Another New Game Development Team Called Arkanaut I think They're Called Arkanaut Which Is Crazy

[00:29:19] Because That Studio Is Also Based Where I Live In Edmonton Because Bioware Is Also Based Here In Edmonton So It Sounds Like This New Studio Is Also Based Here So Another Yeah This Is To Be A Big Studio Like If They're Taking On Something Like This Credit Arkanaut Oh Yeah There It Is There It Is Right There Arkanaut Yeah That's Cool Um Casey Is Back I Guess He I Mean He Exited A Couple Of Times I Think

[00:29:49] But Has Since Come Back He's Also Back In The Mines He's Back In The Mines And Let's See Hopefully It's A Good Game Because His Last One Was Not But Yeah This Is Pretty Cool News For Loop Oh Bad Robot This Was That J.J. Abrams Yeah J.J. It J.J. It's Like a Cocoa Melon Thing It Just Yeah It Just Looked Like Another One Of Those Like Just

[00:30:18] It's A co-op Shooter Yeah There's There's Enough Of With Your Your Final Fight And Stuff But You Play As A Character Who Looks Like Mike Haggar Essentially Oh Yeah Okay I Know What You're Talking About And Yeah

[00:30:48] And He's Just Like A Big Beefy Mustachioed Cop And You Get To Clean Up His Town Like John Goodman And Then This One On To's On To's On To's On To's On This Was Funny So While This Was Playing Like For One Thing Greg Was Like Wow That Sounds A Lot Like Stellan Skarsgård

[00:31:21] And Greg Was Like Holy Shit That's Stellan Skarsgård And Then When The Name Popped Up Beth Goes That's Almost Ontario I Know I It's Like They Made Like A Portmanteau Of Ontario Toronto Yeah That's What I Was Like I Don't Know Why But I Feel Canada From This

[00:31:51] It Is A Sloppy Portmanteau If That's The Case So This Is Frictional Games Is New Game The The Folks That Brought You Soma Soma Yes Thank You Aaron Soma Amnesia This Is Their New Sci-Fi Horror Game And I Can't Wait I Will 100% Be Playing This Game When It Comes Out You Know I Still Have To Get To Playing The Bunker

[00:32:20] I Heard That's Really Good And I Haven't I Played Like The Intro To It When I Still Had Game Pass I Just It Looks Pretty Crazy Yeah This Is I'm I'm Happy For People That Are Much Smarter Than I Aaron This Is Probably A Game For You It Would Not Be

[00:33:06] This Game And When I Looked It Up And It Said That It Was 40 Hours Long I Don't Know How This Game Is That Long For Puzzle Walking I'm Not I'm Not Playing This Game That Long There's No Chance That I'm Going To Be Playing That Amount Of Puzzle So I Don't Know If This Is Going To Be That

[00:33:37] It Looks Really Interesting But Immediately It Hurt My Brain I Could Tell What It Was Doing It It Is All Over The Place In A Good Way I'm Very Happy For Who Cares With That Bradley The Fucking Badger Dude Holy Shit This Was Actually I'm Not Even Kidding This Was One Of That

[00:34:07] Is It's Kind Of Like Doing The Astro Bot Thing In A Weird Way But Like In A Free Way Astro Because It Yeah So Like Astro Bot Tends To Do Satire Of Different Games Oh No So Yeah Very Very Different But Yeah Like It Starts Off Showing You Badger Born Like It's Like That's Born Oh My God And

[00:34:36] Then It Switched To The Last Of Us And Then It Switched To Like Something It Was Like Insane It Was Cyber Yeah It Turned Yeah Cyber Badger Yeah The text Says Cyber Badger Yeah Yeah But Then It Yeah

[00:35:06] Like I I I Was Like Watching This Going What The Fuck Is This This Looks Crazy This Looks Amazing This Is Like A Me Fucking Game Dude I Love It I Want To Inject It Straight Into My Vang Stupid Never Dies Stupid Never Dies I

[00:35:36] People Come On I Know I Think The Trailer Just Was Bad Like I Don't Yeah I Think Yeah You Might Be Right I I I I I I I I I I I I

[00:36:10] Delightfully 2000s With It Stylized Aesthetic I Mean It Sounds Like It Literally Sounds Like An Emo Album The Whole Time Like It It Screams Like That That Last Blink 1982 Album Before They Went On Hiatus Whatever That Was With The Pink And Everything On It Anyways The Free Shepard At First I Was Like I Wonder If This Is A Beth Game Cause You Just Like This Dog You Know Like Herding These Sheep

[00:36:40] And I Thought Like I Wonder If Beth Would Enjoy This But Then It Turned Into Something Else But Then I Was Like Maybe Beth Would Really Enjoy Actually This Is Like As You Jumped On The Call With Us This Was This Trailer Was Playing But By The Time You See It Because By The Time You This Like

[00:37:08] Weird Eldritch Shit It Was Interesting Okay Sounds Awesome It's Yeah It Looks Pretty Pretty Pretty Interesting Dog Stranding Thank you Good night Dogs Yes It was It was A strand Game It was A strand Game For sure Oh I Remember This Chicken Yes For me Coven Of the Chicken Foot Beth Why don't You

[00:37:47] Ghibli Type Vibe The Old Lady Like Specifically Reminds Me Of Elder Sophie From Howl's Moving Castle And She Seems To Have A Relationship Like A Friendship Slash Like You Know Trying To Mold Or Teach This Creature That Helps Her Kind Of Like Navigate The World And Do Puzzles And Stuff That I Guess In Another Vain Is Very Reminiscent

[00:38:17] Of The Last Guardian Yeah What Was The Is It I Want To Say Trico Trico Trico Yeah Yeah So Like Kind Of Like That But It Just Seems Like Really Cute Really Like Visually Interesting And I Don't I'm Ready To Jump Into This World And Believe It

[00:38:47] In It And Probably Get Too Emotionally Attached To That As Soon As I Watched The Trailer I Like That Thing Is Going To Either Die Or It's Going To Be

[00:39:47] so like i i feel like cell shading when done right can really really give a game longevity but that's that i mean that's a side note i'm very very cool i called it during the during the show the the the guy the creature is gonna iron giant and become the evil world ender and he has to be like no remember you're good and then it'll be good which is fantastic because i also love the

[00:40:12] iron giant i've never seen that movie he's an iron giant you should see it vin diesel it's so good yeah i've heard but it's sad too right i don't like sad stuff no it ends like on a hopeful note hopeful um oh dude i just had a brilliant idea hold on i had a brilliant idea for the next super ghost movie night we should binge watch all four butterfly effect movies

[00:40:42] no because there's four like the last two are so fucking bad no i'd rather binge every earnest movie with you guys than do that i have legit and greg way to go aaron greg left why what were we talking about that made you think of the because you guys are talking about movies and then you're talking about sad stuff and i was like man remember that time when i was a

[00:41:08] teenager and i saw the butterfly effect for the first time and i almost cried at the end because he was like a baby and he like chokes himself and then he dies in the womb and shit and i was like oh man no and then there was so there was there's there's two endings to the movie uh we had a dvd that had both and the other ending was like oh you owned it yeah i he owned the quadrilogy

[00:41:34] dude it's ashton kutcher that's the one cool thing iowa has besides slipknot um be out of the he's from iowa yeah he's from uh uh rapids rapid city oh yeah but this game this game though again this game yeah let's talk about yeah decrepit um this is like a first person souls

[00:41:58] looking thing um come back i signed up for the for the open beta thing that they have on steam here's here's hoping that uh who's back i get a call from jammer doll games jammer doll jammer doll jammer doll games please please let me play your game it looks pretty cool because it looks fun it looks cool it looks very fun um yeah like as soon as i seen like souls like i was like ugh

[00:42:26] but then the more i watched it i was like actually this looks pretty cool and it's first person so there's not a lot of those i haven't really i don't really know the last time that i would have played a first person souls like yeah just give it a shot see what it's like doesn't hurt if you get the the demo or the what'd you say it's like a open beta or something okay i signed up on steam

[00:42:53] uh and then we had audio mech uh aaron you i think would be into this you can put your songs into this game and then there's a bunch of different types of games that you play based on the song uh there's like bass blades vocal cannons treble bombs what the whole thing dude can you

[00:43:19] imagine listening to like fucking infant annihilator in this thing like it's just blast beats the whole time you should try the demo i mean is there a demo demo on steam oh my god i'm playing that tomorrow dude doesn't know how to read is what i'm learning i didn't know how to read until greg said

[00:43:41] hey man aaron didn't know how to read until greg said it greg do you know how to read i don't think i do wait he just has this realization wait what is what are you what's reading i see like the matrix numbers falling in the background of my brain and i'm like wait it says there's a demo on steam oh i can read now but yeah uh aaron we should we should check this out this looks and we should

[00:44:08] put some really we should put some really crazy songs put some jamiroquai on it oh that would be good oh we can do better than that we can do like canned heat like yeah there's some stuff we can do what is this dude dude i love how we are now presenting to aaron because aaron doesn't know what any of this is this looks like that whole daft punk album

[00:44:36] um discovery that's what this looks like like do you remember when they had the videos that were like anime do you remember that do you remember that being a thing i'm not a daft punk person man you guys have already been through this i don't know daft punk like that well anyway it's like it's like a retro anime it takes yeah yeah basically yeah it looks really fucking cool retro anime dude 2d

[00:45:03] cinematic elements okay lately i've been having like a soft spot for retro anime like stuff from like the 80s and 90s i love the look of that era of anime because i don't really like how shit blends like cgi shit into anime stuff now yeah i really don't like that i i i don't i'm not a big fan

[00:45:25] they've ruined that berserk movie here's the thing i like the aesthetics of it now that all of the men aren't shaped like incredibly wide trying like the guys used to have the the shoulder width with the tiny little heads and then this little snatched waists for like all of the like elder togero from fucking yuhaka show dude is just like

[00:45:54] the entire i'm glad that's the entirety of fist of the north star oh yep there you go yeah um so but yeah this this game looks great yeah announced for the nintendo switch two proportions hell yeah i don't did they say it was coming out for anything else no who cares switch two baby i know i know one thing kelper had a pretty big

[00:46:20] presence at this game awards because they are uh they're the ones that didn't they they published uh expedition 33 right yeah oh that's like the whole thing yeah oh dude so divinity 3 had a trailer yes larian is doing divinity 3 and just today i've seen a thing where one of the like head creative

[00:46:45] heads of larian was like it's gonna be better than baldur's gate 3 which is crazy because baldur's gate 3 was fucking amazing but now i mean i have a friend that actually just he was like man i should i should play divinity 2 and now he's playing he's like dude this is this is literally baldur's gate 3 like it's it's very clear to see that baldur's gate 3 was the evolution of this game yeah he was like it's not it's not as good like there's there's definitely things that were

[00:47:14] made better in baldur's gate 3 but he was like it really does feel like i'm getting to play like another one of those um question this trailer was insane yeah go ahead question uh we should all we should all play through baldur's gate 3 together and get into like really stupid hijinks and just make the worst possible decisions i wish i had that kind of time i really wish i had that

[00:47:40] kind of if we all pick the worst shit that would be over every new fool jerry doesn't replay games i was gonna say do credits and done divinity divinity is it gonna have this like the same type of like co-op campaign because if it is then maybe that's something that we can commit to that'd be cool i just want to do like a goof run and in baldur's gate and see how quickly we can we could die so fast i think we can figure it out pretty quick goof run otter mode so we just there's

[00:48:09] no otter mode it's coming we just if you if you're down you're down yeah that's otter mode if you die you die okay oh so yeah the divinity 3 trailer was out of control like it it it had the burn like basically a wicker man situation there was a dude in this big wicker thing and they were lighting it

[00:48:35] but like the whole like town was gathered around to see it people were banging like in front of this sacrifice there were children there being like oh uppies i want to see the man melt and then like the man started to melt and then as he was melting like his melty skin and like parts were

[00:48:58] landing on the ground and then turning into like like darkness ooze death shit and like killing people it was fucked like you gotta go check out this trailer it was insane it just kept getting more and more crazy the longer like at first i was just like all right here we go another one of these like medieval games but then as it went on it just kept getting crazier so i am looking very

[00:49:27] forward to divinity 3 uh this was a game that immediately i said beth would you like to play this with me and then greg cut me off and said you can't just take her for everything we still have to beat it takes two or not is it are you playing it takes two split fiction oh split fiction yes split fiction yeah so you should yeah get get on get on that one because that's a that's a good one

[00:49:54] i really liked split fiction that's that's fantastic but uh yeah this is another one of the future you what so hopefully more driving is in our future no it was so bad it was so bad who beth you had to drive oh my god i can't drive in games i can't drive i don't have a license but i i really can't drive that's for the best of what i learned i i i would highly recommend that you maybe skip metroid prime 4 we'll talk about that later

[00:50:23] um so out of words a closer look wait is that the name of the game or is it just no i think they're gonna work on that i'm literally reading like from a telepromp like ron burgundy go fuck yourself san diego out of words is another one of these like co-op only kind of things that

[00:50:48] is now becoming it's becoming a thing and honestly i kind of like it i kind of like this like yeah man this game is designed with co-op in mind and you need to play it in co-op i like it it's uh has like this very interesting stop motion um to it it looks like there was a lot of work that went into making this game because it does look like they use actual right this was the one that they it like the trailer

[00:51:16] started off with them actually like like moving the stop motion stuff if i remember right i don't know the whole thing was a blur to me but it looks it looks really really cool i'm uh i'm interested saros um oh yeah that's coming real soon yeah that's the um the returnal that is the maternal sequel yeah um whoa let me join james bond world hello oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so

[00:51:42] lenny kravitz showed up forget about saros yeah fuck saros lenny kravitz's full dick busted out of his jeans again he will play balma a pirate ruler holy shit what yeah dude i will say when the screen like opened up and he walked out his strut his swag dude i was like i was like oh my

[00:52:07] gosh that like i just got pregnant like it was it was it was kind of just more like that man is so confident in himself like that's what that's what it is to lose confidence yeah he oozes confidence like that is he is so self-assured that is not an insecure man i just was like everyone should shut up and listen to what he was to say yeah it was it was it was great um

[00:52:36] it was a cool trailer uh so lost a two uh oh do you oh yeah that was a cr okay it's a crpg mm-hmm um yeah it looked pretty cool um right right right right yeah i don't know if i'm spectacularly interested in this i don't know what's a dn3 i will look into it yeah uh oh shit

[00:53:05] mila jovo wait we gotta clear something up yeah we gotta clear something up we all were like hold on her last name is jovovich i've been saying it wrong my entire life i don't know if i've ever jovovich or whatever jovovich yeah same dude so it's jovovich i learned a couple of days ago yeah um yeah they're putting her in hit man that's cool man given they're giving eminem the boot

[00:53:34] and she's coming in so that's cool lords of the fallen 2 um yeah they already do that i mean am i this is like so they did lords of the what what was it lord of the fallen or something like lords of the fallen and then they rebooted it essentially with lords of the fallen and now this is the sequel to that okay sequel to the reboot yeah what the all right it looks it looks

[00:54:02] fine i guess i i really want to play that first one again like the first one or like the first reboot yeah i should clarify not the first one the the reboot the one that just came out a couple years ago uh guild wars 2 i should get back into guild wars 2 it's been many a year leon's back guess who's back

[00:54:29] leon's back uh we kind of got some clarification of the resident evil 9 campaign it's going to be split in two like evenly you play as leon and you play as grace grace is going to be more survival horror like strictly survival horror whereas leon's going to be more action-based so he's just going to be like fucking spin kick and fools through windows and shit yeah and like they showed him with

[00:54:56] a chainsaw that looked pretty fucking awesome he's also still still leon like his appearance on screen was he shot something in the head right by grace's like face and then the camera pans over to him and he's like hey over here like he says like some fucking leon ass shit and i was like yes yes let

[00:55:20] him continue doing his quips is this one devs does sorry go ahead no go right you go how's it the devs described it as like the leon sections are like your exhale after the uh great stuff yeah is this still gonna be first person or is it third person so here's the thing um i had i had seen something about this a while back that they were saying something about there was like suggestions you could play

[00:55:49] it in both but like there's suggestions in certain areas i wouldn't be surprised if it's just straight up gonna be like yeah man when you're playing as grace you're in first person when you're playing as leon play in third person but no you yeah yeah that's what that'll be the suggestions like i can't imagine how you would play the leon portions in first person no i gotta see that air man that guy's been kicking all over the place too like you're gonna vomit you throw up you're actually jumping

[00:56:18] in the air and spinning from a first person perspective the whole camera is just like spinning around going crazy suplexing dudes and shit that'd be awesome yeah i'm excited for this game i really am um february 27th we're we're almost there baby that's a day one for this guy claire obscure expedition 33 they are adding some free content they announced after they won

[00:56:43] fucking every single award at the game awards like they they cleaned house and it was so nice to see that these guys cleaned house and there were every single one of them that went up and accepted a speech were so humble and just like so like it was so heartfelt like they were all just fighting back tears it was it was really really nice to see that lego batman legacy of the dark knight which is essentially the the arkham game that i've wanted ever since the second one because i thought

[00:57:11] that the other ones after that kind of sucked ass so this is the one i want i want this lego one because it looks like the game that i've been wanting for the last i don't know how many years uh diablo 4 has a new expansion oh so go back so you piece of shit go back so diablo 4 has a new expansion coming out uh that's bringing back the

[00:57:36] paladin and uh hell yeah i need to get back if you pre-order it you if you pre-order it you get access to the paladin immediately so you know people keep asking me if i'm back and uh yeah i'm thinking i'm back oh greg please invite me please i i reinstalled my friend and i'm going to as soon as this record is done pre-order lord of hatred so i can play paladin immediately oh my god man oh god yep i'm

[00:58:06] sucked guys back dude you heard it first here on super ghost greg is back greg's back okay now you can go now you are we good can we move on you're good okay phantom blade zero um neo3 it's going past it yeah pragmata holy shit guys i got to play this game i got to play this demo

[00:58:37] uh this game kicks a lot of ass like a lot of ass it's a third person it's like they announced this like before the fucking ps5 came out it was like a launch trailer kind of thing when they were showing off the ps5 this was one of the things that they showed off back then we knew nothing about it other than it was like oh man it's spacesuit with this little girl now it's become very apparent what

[00:59:02] type of game this is and i i kind of fucking love what they're doing with this game and it's a capcom game it's a capcom game uh the demo was running so so good uh that re-engine continues to impress me until it does open world well they're they're improving that we'll get to that um re-engine is this anyway is designed for corridors now continue

[00:59:28] so this game is like a third person action shooter kind of like i don't know like vanquished i guess maybe it might be the the best comparison in this shooting aspect of it but then there's this added thing where like when you are aiming at any of the enemies like this square pops up and with the face

[00:59:50] buttons like a is down y is up x is left and b is right and it's like a puzzle that you have to like move through she like hacks the enemies that's how you actually like expose their weaknesses and actually like get critical hits and stuff so it's like you're having to do two different things at the same time like you're having to shoot these things and dodge jump and do all kinds of crazy acrobatic

[01:00:16] shit but also while you're playing you're controlling both of these characters because you're hacking shit with her in real time it is wild i highly recommend if you're into action games and like shooting games like i don't know vanquish or i don't know just any action game really third person action shooter go check this out demos out there and just go get it and it was it was like i

[01:00:43] played that demo when this is a day one purchase for me a hundred percent there's um i don't remember when it was probably sometime this over the summer and stuff but there was a lot of hands-on previews with uh capcom games so like pragmata and um requiem oh yeah and uh everyone who got their hands and was

[01:01:08] playing the pragmata preview stuff have said nothing but positive things that i've heard so it doesn't surprise me that you know now that the general public is getting to play some of the demos and stuff that it's continued to be like a positive experience for most people um and i think that's great i think i think demos are really important yeah absolutely especially for something that um well i

[01:01:37] think they're important for everything but especially for things that are like this because you're doing something so different or something that's really unique it gives people the opportunity to like go in and play and try before you buy but also like they're like the confidence in their their system and the thing that they have made they're like here like get your hands on it don't be intimidated try it see how fun it is get like the hang of it really spoon feed you too like they

[01:02:07] they it's like i didn't feel overwhelmed by tutorials i'm looking at you monster hunter uh i wasn't overwhelmed by like just like constant tutorial pop-ups i'm just being like you can do this you can do this you can do this you can do this because there was a lot going on by the time the demo was done like i was still figuring out things but it was like spoon fed to me enough that i was like okay i can do this okay now okay well now we're adding this to this now it's kind of that's changing things so it just kept stacking different layers of gameplay on

[01:02:34] that we're all working in such a weirdly synchronized way that i got into like this weird flow state where i was like holy shit this game like clicked with me well a lot of people big time that's something i've heard from a lot of people's impressions is that like when you get good at it you start to do enter a flow state of just doing everything yeah yeah it was it was nuts

[01:02:57] um again highly recommend anybody check this game out check that demo uh lost skies what is this uh six-player co-op multiplayer survival game warframe got some new shit yep uh weathering waves what i don't know that's a hoi over some new wipe neo uh seven deadly sins no thanks swipe

[01:03:27] screamer uh screamer looks sick what was it that's the anime racing game yes the car dude it's a car pg what aaron i need you to calm down buddy i need to look up you're about to get real hype the trailer is sick as hell greg and i were losing our minds beth couldn't have been less interested as soon as she's seen cars uh you know what though you it'd probably be a game that

[01:03:57] you'd probably enjoy watching maybe i can't drive that'd be bet the entire time she's trying to play i can't drive why did you put me behind the wheel i don't know how to drive you made a tactical error but yeah this is uh this is a car pg man it's anime ass like initial d

[01:04:20] looking shit holy shit this looks fucking insane soul frame what was this again uh oh that's the warframe people right that did that yeah digital extremes it's like a whole new thing that they got coming holy shit hang on before you before you continue dude this screamer game yeah reminds me a

[01:04:41] lot of like um like split second and all that shit but super anime as fuck this is yeah it looks really cool i'm on board this is my get i was i was hoping there was gonna be like one one erin get this whole time and i i think that's it dude screamer is on my list now uh some invincible stuff uh from

[01:05:05] that fighting game that's coming out ace combat eight dude yeah ace combat eight look pretty crazy i need to play one i still yeah i i have been meaning to go back and play i've i've never played any of these but a friend of mine played seven was like dude you gotta play this game it's crazy it's like it's dog fighting and it's made really well but there's also anime ass bullshit going on like it's

[01:05:33] like a to the next level and the soundtrack is fucking insane too yeah so i i kind of want to check out actually seven is on it's in my it's in my cart as we speak it's on sale on steam right now for like four dollars so i might uh i might pick aaron it's probably like two dollars for you right hell yeah yeah uh awesome they're adding deadpool to rivals yeah it's a cool trailer it was a cool trailer it

[01:06:03] made me want to hold deadpool game though in that style whoa what is this oh 2x ko i this is i don't know what this is it's a fighting game my my my my boy a fighting game but like with league of legends people there's been a lot of buzz about it yeah it's uh it's so it's league of legends people it's made by the people who uh who are there like by like so the you know evo yeah the big fighting

[01:06:29] tournament the the the founders of evo um are started like developing this game with a bunch of um people who are big in like the versus game scene oh okay and like i've been i've really been wanting to try it out and like i don't know what has stopped me but like time time and just forgetting about it and but like it's free it cost me it would cost me nothing to try oh yeah oh it is free

[01:06:57] that's yeah maybe we should maybe we should try it if it's free yeah i mean it doesn't hurt let's check it out high guard what was this now this is when the end of the show made by the titanfall devs that free the play hero shooting yeah that okay yeah we're done because i'm gonna tell you i was super disappointed with the way that this show like they were like we got one more thing and it was a

[01:07:21] fucking hero shooter like really you're gonna end on a hero shooter for fuck's sakes there's not already enough of these i think the thing though that they were kind of were banking on in the in like the excitement factor was that it was people who had worked on titanfall and had left greg's disappointment oh my god so yeah it kind of it's one of those things that you hear and you're

[01:07:48] like oh my gosh they're making like the spiritual successor to titanfall 2 right what came up on the screen like first it was like from the creators of titanfall 2 greg was like holy shit like we thought we were getting something other than this but it wasn't at all yeah exactly and so it's it's too bad more like the people left and then just decided they were going to make a rival to apex which

[01:08:18] there's so many we don't need it it's okay yeah like haven't and god damn it haven't they learned by now like there there's what overwatch there's rivals i guess those are like the two big wall and apex and what's the other one valorant like there's no valorant new hero shooters don't stand a chance man

[01:08:39] stop it yeah it's really hard that's what i mean like hero shooters and like pve and pvp like i just feel like they're a dime a dozen now like everybody's seen the success of like a few really good ones in the last like three or four years and they're like oh let's get in on it what was that square soft one or square soft square annex one like but the fucking bubbles yeah what the fuck was that shit

[01:09:07] yeah and where is that now dollar store is that even out platoon get the fuck out of town they released it yeah and i've heard zero people talk about that game zero exactly this many people do i think it was released literally at the beginning of this year yeah so like has been shut down flop you watch that those servers will be gone in like two years i think the benefit the benefit of of this one versus

[01:09:31] something like like uh concord for example will be that this this one is free and like if you're gonna make if you're gonna make a game like that make it cost nothing to get people in and to try it you know absolutely i guess that's true because you're if you're trying to compete with it like this in this market like in this you know this thing you cannot you can't put a price on it because

[01:09:57] overwatch and rivals are both free yeah yeah so to charge money for something that is uh asking for trouble yeah but yeah that was um that was the game awards and uh we each kind of

[01:10:10] we only got a little something at the game awards this year but uh next up it's time to discuss

[01:10:34] the fate of fantasy critic 2025 the results minus aaron aaron will be part of this one you get to you get to be part of us um so let's go through our well let's go through our uh our our our uh our lists see sure what we all i'll share that screen again it'll be easier

[01:10:56] and we'll say though like you know this is the starting next year at the new one um aaron will be joining us hell yeah and so it'll be you know that'll be fun it'll hopefully change things up a little bit and i also you know let's before we jump into this year let's talk about like jerry would you have anything to discuss about stardew valley the game that you know you played it

[01:11:26] your punishment did your you did your time and i did i did my time no i want out and i want out so we'll be safe um shout out to iowa um so i my sentencing this year was much much much much better than the year before which i had i had some problems but this year the

[01:11:55] sentencing was stardew valley now at first pretty pissed pretty pissed that my friends for making me play this game i've i've explicitly said several times on this podcast and off the pod i do not like farm sims i don't like them i don't care for them i don't give a shit about a farm sim

[01:12:20] but i gave a shit about stardew valley i gave a shit about my crops i gave a shit about that cave i gave a shit about some of the people even i started to give a shit it it started to to really rub off on me um the challenge was uh at first was to get married which i said absolutely i'm not married in real life so like that ain't gonna happen in a fucking video game i like that this

[01:12:44] fantasy draft uh your punishment it started off just like uh like an early 2000s dramedy where it's like like i don't care about anything i'm gonna hate this whole thing blah blah blah i don't like any of it but he's about to find out how easy it is to get started on his own and then it shows me like overalls on it like this fucking you're hacking away and then i gave a shit about everything on my

[01:13:10] farm and it shows me like hugging a horse and being like you're my best friend then it shows you proposing to your like pixel art wife you're like will you marry me so um the the ask was to spend at least eight hours in the game that's usually like the standard but greg said i want you to get

[01:13:32] to level what was it 30 50 we just said the ice 40 the ice the ice portion of the cave system well i got to that and i just kept going because i was actually having a good time with it it didn't feel like it was a chore that i had to get to that point like i was i was actually enjoying the game so that and to have a farm that makes sense and i mean i'm not great at these games so it didn't

[01:13:58] it might not have made much sense like it wasn't a good farm but like i had i had a system going you know i i had like my my my my routine down like i would i would go and i would i like i was kind of early starting off so i didn't have like a good variety of like different crops or anything i only had like i think i had some yeah i had some chickens but like i didn't have a lot going on but it was it was enough for me man you know it was enough for me in my little homestead and i would just go

[01:14:28] out and i'd be like hmm i'm gonna like you know work on this this whole land that i have here and just kind of clear it out and kind of start mapping out like oh this is where i'd like to put like a barn in the future and like i i was starting to get into it and i'll say that i'm not done with this game i don't think i think i i will continue because i bought this game on steam eons ago when it first came out and i never touched it because it was just like it was the hot game that was out um but yeah

[01:14:55] i i genuinely liked it it was it was the i think the first time that you guys sentenced me with something that i i genuinely was like oh this doesn't feel like a chore anymore well this doesn't feel like i'm being like i know like the whole thing is like not to you it's not like you guys recommended this game to be like hey because the whole thing is that we we recommend a game that we think the other person would not actually play on their own but would genuinely

[01:15:25] like there is something there that we there's a part of it there there's an idea there that we think that you can actually get into or get behind um because yeah i think with starting specifically when we recommended we were like jerry's gonna love the caves like we really thought that like once when you got into the game gave it a fair shake and started getting like you know into the caves and things like that that you would have like a really good time with the game yeah it just is like

[01:15:53] giving getting you to have to give it a shot though is like the the kind of like the rub there and so it was an opportunity to do that yeah and also to be fair we also did think you would like odyssey um at least a little so um we no point did we think you weren't gonna like a game that we recommended and same thing like when we recommend uh or we our punishment for greg was celeste like there was

[01:16:24] yeah i genuinely thought that you were gonna enjoy that but you showed a lot of frustration for that game what yeah i did not i didn't like it i didn't i did not like i didn't know but that's not like that's no fault of the game yeah it's just it wasn't it wasn't for me wasn't a good fit wasn't it wasn't a good fit we had to circle back and put a pin in it but i did i did my time you know i went out and

[01:16:50] i did mine so abusive uh i guess also one more like piece of housekeeping about um this before we move on is that um the council came together and did they we did uh the council did come together and we did to make the decision that for any future punishments that the person who has to play

[01:17:19] the game needs to at least finish it within the first six months of the year yes yes yes because uh no no no more procrastinating on your homework yeah yeah i literally when i did odyssey because i hated it so much i i was it was like december 29th and i was still like getting those hours in but i

[01:17:46] fucking did it i did it i did it the last minute but i did it so we're just instituting a little bit of a time gate on it uh just to further kind of make sure that it gets done yeah so uh i guess let's get into it um we uh we have first up here i am with my my company nanny's hole which by the way if you

[01:18:15] if you don't know um this is this is a disgusting name for a company on paper but uh beth told the uh the harrowing tale of her friend following into like a ravine and that ravine josh fell off a cliff and that cliff's name was nanny's hole so her friend fell straight into nanny's hole nanny's hole nanny's hole almost killed my best friend

[01:18:42] what it do uh so yeah naturally i named my company this and the games that i had were doom in the dark ages uh unannounced main line 3d mario platformer that i was very convinced would have been announced with the switch to um that didn't happen like a dragon pirate yakuza in hawaii

[01:19:05] uh melgear solid delta snake eater claire obscure expedition 33 uh pat myself on the back for that one uh avowed rift of the necrodancer kingdom come deliverance 2 dying light the beast silent hill f ninja gaiden rage bound chronos new dawn my baby kirby air riders aaron my baby dragon quest

[01:19:33] one and two hd 2d remake the outer worlds 2 little nightmares 3 and my counter picks were well i guess are those like traits or so yeah these are these are picks of the other two that i countered with where i said you believe they're gonna be not as good or they're not gonna come out or they're not gonna come out yeah so i fucked up and chose the

[01:20:02] first berserker kazan which i truly still stand by my reasoning here i that game didn't have any right to do as good as it did but it apparently is a very good game you should try it i i fucking love the demo it was good it was so good yeah yeah yeah maybe i should and it looks it looks so good too it does yeah it is a good looking game so i finished with a grand total of 180 points

[01:20:30] jerry's best season yet best season yet i wasn't fucking around then we have the game company greg and the player of it greg greg greg okay uh greg i don't i don't i don't mess around with this stuff it's like uh it's like uh i'm in a i'm in a survivor for like fantasy for survivor the

[01:20:55] reality show and my tribe's name is greg to the point yep you're never gonna be confused so greg would you like to explain greg's choices sure so uh i yeah i need to scroll because uh it is not similar to mine so up first uh i did a lot of research for here uh for this one but i mean like

[01:21:21] these first two were obvious in my book so we got monster hunter wilds and death trending two on the beach both are heavy hitters elden ring night rain atelier atelier yumia the alchemist of memories and the envisioned land yep um that's trails in this in the sky first chapter so these are a category of pick that i make which are every games that i beth thinks that i'm not going to choose

[01:21:50] and that are safe to leave and i will choose them immediately it's fucking wild i have no intention of ever picking atelier yumia um to be clear i think nave picked that in ours did he yeah yeah and i was didn't well i picked it because i knew it wouldn't lose me points um yeah true it would fatal fury city of the wolves because if there's a fighting game i'm gonna choose

[01:22:20] it that's how it goes um first berserker kazan ninja gaiden four you can go a little bit faster uh fuga melodies of steel three shinobi art of vengeance two point museum the midnight walk tony hawk's pro skater three and four uh hollow knight silk song which i was like it's coming out i i knew i in my heart it was coming out this year because i had heard so i when i was doing my

[01:22:48] research i heard some insider intel that this was the year and they gave me a they gave me a date and everything so i i i followed my intel uh hell yeah donkey kong bonanza uh mina the hollower i mean i don't think that's coming out man no hey listen there's still time

[01:23:12] the release date is tba just saying there's still time yeah uh and then i my counterpicks were uh wander stop and unannounced mainline 3d mario platformer yeah safe yeah yeah i got i got fucking wrecked on that but 214 totally i was that was a pb for me 214 yeah i'm fired that's a pretty that's a spicy like i didn't have like with the exception like no with the exception of mina the

[01:23:42] hollower none of my games ran negative which i think is a first for me yep so uh beth your team name please snow day productions and you've chose to to go with the following games what are they i went with ghost of yotei

[01:24:08] good picks good picks metroid prime 4 beyonds sid meyer's civilization 7 disappointing um pokemon legend z a sleeper citizen 2 split fiction god that was a good get wander stop mario kart world yeah so here's a little tidbit about this is that when you chose this it wasn't even called mario kart

[01:24:38] world it was called unannounced mario kart game yeah yeah you guys and you guys goaded me into it too i know we goaded you into something much worse you did that you did but you go to you we'll get there uh we'll get there uh we'll get there uh hell is us i like that game it was a good game yeah demon school

[01:25:05] possessor yes with an s uh death howl digimon story time stranger ball pit ball pit ever deep aurora don't know what that is that's a good game man is it yeah digger metroidvania sorry okay and then i counterpicked claire obscure expedition 33

[01:25:34] and outer worlds 2 so what's what's the counterpick do again i'm confused so counterpick that's is something you are you do you have to do it and you that's against a game it's against a game so you're either betting on it not performing well so you don't lose a lot of points or not coming out oh so and if the game tanks you gain points yeah so one year greg picked

[01:26:02] um babylon that babylon fall game by um yeah uh platinum games and i counterpicked it and it was um greg lost like 13 points on it so i got 13 points oh okay so the 20 the minus 24 negative uh greg or jerry or whoever got that then yeah so jerry picked claire like clear obscure so he got and because of the

[01:26:32] way it got a 92 so it's 24 points he gets plus 24 i get minus 20 gotcha right yeah so that brings us to best total uh with a resounding 143 so to recap what happened here was we put a lot of doubt into clear

[01:26:55] clear obscure when we were we were picking yeah yeah and the thing with clear obscure with what i just to give you some insight i know that greg greg likes to counterpick uh based off of what he genuinely thinks isn't going to perform well i tend to try and i like counterpicking what i think isn't

[01:27:16] going to come out um on top of that so i thought to a degree because of how um like good clear obscure looked versus like when it had been announced i was like thinking maybe it was going to get pushed into maybe like the beginning of 2026 on top of that which i is another thing i do still stand by i thought when we were seeing the characters like run around in the overworld i did think they looked

[01:27:46] weird like i didn't think the the animation was necessarily good um they looked like they ran funny so i was like maybe that's an indication that when the game comes out like the it's gonna be like a bit more janky than expected so i did have that doubt as well and then when i when i was expressing that those ideas i think uh jerry and greg were like absolutely for sure so um you gotta play the

[01:28:16] game man if it makes you feel any better i fucking tanked the super pod network one i i fucking i did so poorly i think yeah i got the lowest by far because i well now you both have reason to be redeemers in 2026 i have nothing to feel ashamed of uh i got 143 uh this is a i may have lost but also i this is my first time not winning yeah you you have a oh shit uh like you know the streak

[01:28:45] that yeah so the titan has been felled the titan has been felled and yes you know so i i don't feel i don't feel bad for my loss and it's like it's not even like it's not and like like it wasn't like like the like a bad pick or anything that got you through it the problem is most of your games were like very middling and that's that's where yeah that was and i think there was a lot of stuff that i thought were you know once again you know nothing's a sure bet but a lot of stuff that i thought would be like

[01:29:14] safe picks or perform um that generally like like uh civilization usually is not in the 70s um so like there was there was a couple things that i felt um were safe picks were kind of safer picks uh either because of their studio or because of the um the history of that franchise and then to

[01:29:38] be fair i picked pokemon za and digimon story because for me like i didn't think those were going to be games that were going to perform amazing my first pick was ghost of yote and that wasn't also i was like this isn't there was stuff on the board that i thought was going to perform like 90s and stuff but i went into this year because because i had won three in a row um i sort of like didn't do much

[01:30:05] research i and i wanted to go more with things that um either i just were like i thought were cool things there was a couple things i was like thought were sure bets but they didn't perform well so the i was kind of none of the things that were i guess i went way more out like outfield with a lot of picks but thinking that i was going to be covered or do well with the stuff i thought were guaranteed

[01:30:30] safe bets that didn't pan out that way so and unfortunately you you went up against me this year who was the opposite the opposite and i was doing research and i yeah you annihilated this year i was this was so good i went from playing the game to playing the game but so do i i this was

[01:30:55] this was a i think this is probably a pb for me too oh yeah i was also i wasn't fucking around i didn't have to message you asking you to pick your games yeah yeah every other every other year it would come like half the year in and you'd be like gary we gotta we gotta have a talk we gotta talk your uh your fantasy critic is is is a dumpster fire what are you doing you gotta get over there get that sorted out you know you gotta participate like if we're doing it you gotta at least buy

[01:31:25] like pretend like to buy in and do it a little bit uh and also you know we can do it for the show exactly as as as as is greg style i had all my picks done by march probably yeah similar to i think you had um one game that got um uh what's it called you wanted you asked me

[01:31:49] if you could drop something and because we had yeah we had asked um or we had said we could drop something but for whatever reason the system didn't let me the system didn't let you so i just fixed that i wish i remembered what it was yeah but and you picked up mina the howler i did it didn't mean i mean the hollower didn't come out uh like sidebar apparently that game needs to do good or yacht club's

[01:32:14] done oh what they said they said as much oh no way they said if mina like mina the hollower is their final fantasy if this game doesn't do well they're done oh no that's their fire emerald awakening yeah well i oh yeah i mean if it's good it's good but if it's what's i mean i hope it's you know the they put a lot of time and work into this i hope it ends up panning out for them shovel knight

[01:32:39] is incredible so i mean there's potential for them to knock it out of the park again but uh now this is this is the part this is the part where we strike the gavel down so and uh my sentencing we gotta put the fucking impractical jokers fucking uh

[01:33:05] i'm gonna take my emotional support dino take your emotional support dino so um we've talked about this jerry and i talked about it not for very long it was a really easy choice yeah what we wanted uh yeah we really we talked like once briefly about it and we're like so yeah

[01:33:28] and he's like yeah and then we guys and so we we decided to choose a standout uh ps4 game um one critically acclaimed it's not it's not an open world but it's very densely compact

[01:33:50] i know and it's a rabid fan rabid fan base rabid rabid fan base oh yeah please god tell us what the game is and so i know that great at the same time uh we can't do that because it'll never sync up oh so unfortunately we can't do that we need like a final fantasy uh raid countdown time we're gonna

[01:34:18] say at the same time but uh so the game uh that we have chosen for you to play beth is yakuza zero really really yes not bloodborne not bloodborne

[01:34:45] never never question whether or not we love you okay yeah you guys care about me yeah but if you lose again i we i can't make the same promise so yeah if you lose again this year it's yeah i mean this is just a fair warning oh your camera froze completely for me in a moment of blurry joy am i back nope yeah it's fine for me not enough it's fine for me it's fine um sprinkle we did it

[01:35:15] we made it that's gonna call her mom after this and be like mom i just want to say i love you i'm real surprised you guys didn't go for the fucking throat like the first time she loses and you guys are just like oh relax like well hang on hang on i'm supposed to play eight hours of yeah but i truly think and this is what we talked about that like you're gonna i think you're gonna

[01:35:45] enjoy yakuza zero yeah pop that some bitch on easy or where you go don't don't work listen i've said this for years that my hesitation with getting into yakuza zero is similar to yakuza zero zero to get into yakuza in general is similar i think to some people's hesitation in getting into

[01:36:07] like trails um i can understand that because it is a huge like there's a lot there for content and it continues yeah like i tried kwami and i didn't really get interested um but that being said it's like you know eight hours is different from giving something a shot and being like i just

[01:36:34] can't get into this right now yeah um i think this is just my prediction i think that because of the eight hour time like the mandatory time i think you'll end up in enjoying the story so much by that point that you'll want to see it carried through because the storytelling in in zero specifically

[01:36:57] very specifically in zero is incredible and the game is just fantastic plus i mean you might end up getting addicted to the cabaret club who knows i did i hundred percent you couldn't you could knock out eight hours of cabaret club you can knock out eight hours yeah absolutely and yeah no i i don't doubt it's i've never doubted that i'd really get into the series um i just heard they're like

[01:37:27] soap operas so i like a good dramatic soap opera oh it's i used to watch general hospital when as a kid yeah it's just like general hospital except you know yeah it's exactly like that like i remember on general hospital when they're like putting guys through like doors and through the ceiling and just like fighting tigers and stuff like oh dude and the the baby man you'd call up a baby man on the cell phone and summon him in battle that was cool they did that once

[01:37:56] oh man yakuzo zero is a good time so yeah we do still love you and we did not pick bloodborne even though we did try to give you a heart attack because we did try to make it sound like we were going to make you play bloodborne i was fully prepared for bloodborne i know you were because we we said it so many times like the fucking second you lose we're making

[01:38:21] you play bloodborne yeah i was i was like legit like this is it and i kind of was like the real game plan the real game plan is that we're just waiting for them to announce the remake so that it's just easier for you to play yeah of course good rebate so if you check your steam inventory you will see yakuzo zero has arrived oh you guys bought it for me yes we did well there's there's there's a reason why um yeah so with director's cut coming

[01:38:50] out it's already been delisted from all all the stores except for steam and the original version from all all reports is like much better than director's cut okay and it was on sale for not that much money so okay perfect all right amazing oh that's so much better that's so much better i feel

[01:39:14] like maybe a little bit of a hey jerry did you liking stardew valley soften your heart a little too um his heart grew two sizes that day i wonder if i wonder if i can find this conversation we had yeah it was like brief over text where it was like so like bloodborne it was like maybe bloodborne but let's think about it and then it was like what about this and it was like oh yeah

[01:39:40] yeah it was a zero that makes total sense and it was like okay so this is the one yeah this is it basically was like that like it was maybe like this much text and it was a done deal i just saw that jerry you had sent me a bunch of things that yakuza and bloodborne have in common that i could use to to string along a little bit longer i did not see this message oh my god you guys

[01:40:03] yeah i didn't uh i i put it uh currency is expense or is experience uh trick weapons and like battles because you get battle styles uh visceral attacks which you can do like your heat actions and i i actually i grabbed the uh the dense the dense not an open world but a dense compact one because i knew that that was a similarity that like i mean that's what bloodborne is like right like it's not open

[01:40:29] world but it's very dense and like compact so it's like eight hours of bloodborne is literally going to be tortured so like here maybe not but anyway here's the uh here this is the conversation uh so i think it's without question now that beth is losing fancy uh critic and jerry says ha ha ha yes metroid won't save her not sinister like that that's just how it came out yes metroid won't save her

[01:40:59] did she speak to you a few weeks ago she was paying him planning with me to not have his big bloodborne i don't know she didn't like genuine dismay and then does the next part of the text say and then you should see her fucking hat it looks so so so stupid what hat no no it's a it's a bit he's doing

[01:41:23] a bit i think you should leave oh no she didn't like genuine dismay now i think now uh now i think true to the objective of uh of our game we should choose something we think the loser would like but may never play so i have an alt potentially um and i said if ds3 was an extra i'd say that because it's not spooky um but i'm thinking yakuza 0 0 yakuza 0 and then why do we keep saying yakuza 0 um bun bun

[01:41:49] miyamoto's brother and then uh jerry was like holy shit if the minimum is eight hours that's more than enough time to let that game get its hooks in her um and i said i was gonna say like a dragon but that's too in her wheelhouse yeah i mean like a dragon is just then i'll play like a turn-based game for sure yeah but yeah and then we we we worked out the details and how that would work okay when uh when should we start the next this is why we're fantasy critic draft league thing

[01:42:20] so typically it'll come after anti-game of the year which by the way um usually we would have done it by now but uh just because uh we have a lot of guests a lot of returning guests a lot of new guests that are coming on for anti-game of the year um we decided to push it into january and it kind of makes more sense because at least then the year is actually over and we're quite literally reviewing

[01:42:46] everything from that year even though anti-game of the year is kind of all over the place and you know people make up their own categories sometimes it doesn't apply to games of that current year but that said that will be in january after our little holiday break and after anti-game of the year we usually then kick off the new year with the fantasy credit because it's a good time to do it at the very start of the year you pick all your games and then you're you're coasting for the rest like greg here

[01:43:14] god damn bastard yeah but uh yeah so that's uh that's the schedule um so right now we're gonna take a little we're gonna sit back and take a break well hiatus yeah we're gonna take we're gonna take a break uh happy holidays to everybody enjoy the time celebrating with your friends and your family and your new games you know what throw us an at on our blue sky or wherever and just uh share

[01:43:44] with uh with with your old pals here what you got for christmas i love doing that shit i love that's cute i love like texting my buddies and being like dude i got santa dress for christmas are you fucking kidding me like i used to love doing that shit so yeah reach out to us uh slide into aaron's dms uh for all of the uh the naughty lists uh yeah aaron will pop his top off should we leave the

[01:44:10] listeners a little little gift before we go a little random wreck yeah i think so enjoy over the holidays yeah random recommended games um i'll go first mine's mine's real quick everybody needs

[01:44:33] to try one of the most unsettling games i've played in a while and it is like a cross between like a six i guess it's 16 bit i'm talking about don't or i always gonna say don't it's called look outside this game is a turn-based horror rpg that's kind of like a survival horror but like

[01:44:58] earthbound i guess aaron a little a little bit it's it's a it's a very interesting type of game like you can only save once you go because you're in like your apartment and the whole premise is like something catastrophic is happening outside and anybody who looks outside like gets destroyed like not even looks outside like if you look at a photo that someone took outside reflection

[01:45:26] yep reflection anything whatever the fuck is happening outside i did meet some guy that was like we think it's like another planet or something like yeah that's eclipsing and like yeah it's like it's it's got this really cool story happening but like the gameplay is very interesting where it's like it is turn-based and it's like first person like you know like earthbound or like uh the old dragon quest

[01:45:49] games but like when you leave you gain experience through fighting but you can't cash it in until you actually come back to your your apartment and then you can save and then it the the more time that you spend outside of your apartment is like more dangerous so the more danger you involve yourself in the more experience you get so like you have a bar and it'll tell you like yeah you can save now

[01:46:18] and then like it'll like it's just a very interesting turn-based game but i'm going to tell you something right now there's shit in this game that made me wince oh and it was like 16-bit graphics and i literally went holy shit aaron the kid with the teeth did you see that shit i did get to that yeah and they're like fucking rooted to the ground and shit and uh no well that was that was the that was the

[01:46:45] the brother so we're just brushing his teeth and like yeah there's like you walk in this room and then it goes into like the battle screen and there's this kid and you're like talking to the kid and he's like brushing his teeth and he's like man it's so hard to brush my teeth ever since this happened to me and you're not really like seeing him and he's like okay that's row one done and you're like what the fuck and then when he turns around half of his face is like split open

[01:47:13] and it's like a huge mouth going up the side of his face classic shot like there's it is disgusting and then he just keeps like mutating and then you just gotta you just gotta fucking where was lava girl am i right but yeah 100 jesus christ wild check this game out shortle yeah aaron is playing playing it as well

[01:47:37] i demanded that he buy this game and we both kind of have soft started it um aaron are you you're digging it too yeah i am digging it i'm a little pissed though because i dude i made it's fucking hard i made so much progress i i fucking recruited the the homeless dude and his rat uh and i went so far into the apartment building i explored like two floors and i was like i'm just

[01:48:06] gonna fucking get that danger meter like all the way up and then come back to the apartment and get hella xp and then i died to a um i got fucking cornered in an area or cornered in an area and one of those like shadow monsters that you can't hit it it just it cornered me and i couldn't get past it so i just took took the l and i lost a shit ton of progress also there's a cat here now what's up

[01:48:31] cat so yeah you you you you definitely fucked around i did and you definitely found out yep so the to to kind of like take the sting away a little bit i've been dicking around with wario world because it's on the uh gamecube nso shit now and it's it's nuts man like 3d wario goes ham you can grab enemies and fucking pile drive them into the ground you can uh you can chomp their

[01:48:57] fucking or not chomp their heads off but you can like um you can pick them up and chuck them at shit so like each level has a shit ton of collectibles like you can collect all the gold pieces um to a statue to get a half of a health upgrade you can find these four colorful fairy things i forget what they're called and they'll just give you hints about like how to defeat enemies and

[01:49:21] bosses and shit there's all sorts of shit to collect in each in each stage and like they're small and compact but there's so many layers to them that like on your first run through of a level you'll think dude i got everything there's no way i missed anything but guess what you're wrong and stupid because you did you missed two things you idiot you not nine they need to go back and go get them again because you give it a good proper look through um and the bosses are really fucking cool too like

[01:49:49] there's one that's this like so you're on a raft and there it's like a two-headed dragon or like two-headed serpent what are you just like elbowing your cat you got these two fucking and just fucking people's elbowed that cat right in the face i'm getting too into warrior world man yeah so it's so you're on a raft the two-headed serpent there's a head on each side of the raft and then also at the end the end of the raft they've got their their tails

[01:50:18] wrapped around uh and basically you just be the shit out of like one head make the other one breathe fire on the other i don't know it's just warrior world's fucking shit out of it yeah fuck yeah fucking shit out of the warrior world kicks ass man it's good i love me a good seven out of ten fuck what the critics say yes indeed hell yeah bro greg beth you guys got something i got

[01:50:42] something yeah get yourself like you know 30 to 40 dollars go buy yourself a lego set do a lego yeah fun lego's fun oh yeah but that is a good game yeah i was um i was gonna say you know if you're around the hot like you know go home for the holidays and you're around family and stuff like

[01:51:05] that and you've got your switch or even if you get uh switch two for christmas a good game to play on it that's something you can kind of like pick up do a little bit and then kind of put down whether you want to play like you know in quiet time before you go to sleep or if you're you know taking a little bit between parties and stuff is um the ace attorney investigations collection um because

[01:51:33] they're they're miles's um stories so they're a bit shorter than a regular ace attorney um in my opinion at least i felt that way um and they're yeah you can pick them up you can look around the room do a couple things and then put it down so it's something that's easy to pick up and and put down and stuff so definitely is fun and it's a good good way to um distract yourself if you need to from

[01:52:01] your family if they're you know a lot or you know just something to do uh on your brand new switch to that you hopefully papa noel blesses your christmas tree yeah yeah so it's definitely worth a get if if you got that if you got the opportunity

[01:52:25] hell yeah hell yeah all right well guys 2025 2025 it's uh that's a wrap i mean crazy crazy times yep a good year we made that happened you guys are my friends once again sounds so

[01:52:48] nah nah nah i love you guys you guys are the best uh okay well that'll do it we'll see you in the new year uh keep an eye out for those anti-game of the year there are some really cool guests returning and also again we had some new people coming on uh keep your eyes peeled for those and then we'll do the fantasy critic after that and then it'll be smooth sailing into 2026 yeah cool all right well

[01:53:13] that's it that's all everybody everybody say uh bye bye bye